The national epidemic of butts too big for hypodermic needles to penetrate not only remains on the LA Times most e-mailed list for a record breaking fourth day - but yet again this morning, it slides through the back door back up from yesterday's number three spot back, yes, back up - into the number two spot! Can reclaiming the number one spot once again be far...behind?

From ReutersCHICAGO -- Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said today.Standard-sized needles failed to reach the buttock muscle in 23 out of 25 women whose rears were examined after what was supposed to be an intramuscular injection of a drug.

Unlike all my lesser peers (which pretty much includes... everyone), I originally resisted commenting on this story in a serious - but never again to be repeated - lapse of good taste, but - as it has turned out - this has simply become just too big a spreading story to ignore. And as for all you who are just... bursting... to keep reading this story over and over again - you all know who you are!

Well... actually... we ALL know who you are, but normally we're just too polite to say anything about it.